Category Archives: General Gossip & Gripes

The start of 2014 will be a year for the mobile, as we can see a growing trend in today’s society people are using their mobiles to access social media. Adobe did a survey on consumers to really find out how much people are using their mobile to access social media etc. The answer to …

As discussed in our last week’s blog about in the business world marketing online and how the scope of the internet is forever expanding. So this week my next topic or prediction might make my last week’s top 6 failed predictions right under ‘No one would ever buy a damn thing over the computer’. So …

By Craig Kelley and Dale Manton – Save Downtown Kelowna Alliance One can always tell when it’s spring-time in Kelowna. Not so much just from the departure of our not-so-appreciated winter companion the “low valley cloud”, nor the line ups at all the car washes in town or even the ramp up of golf course advertisements….no, it’s the …

We’ve got a bone to pick with a Forbes article we came across entitled ‘The Hidden Benefits of Social Media Marketing Why Your Strategy May Be Working Better Than You Think.’ Now, we feel the need to clarify a few things, because the picture these guys are painting is damn-near upside down. where to buy …

If the ‘Harlem Shake’ has taught us anything in the past week or so, it’s that social media’s awesome power is the very thing that will lead to the destruction of whatever it touches. Well, not necessarily everything; just the stuff that’s ‘good enough’ to somehow go viral and/or gain obscene popularity. This isn’t a new …

The walls are closing in as the social media phenomenon titans Myspace and Facebook near-simultaneously experimented with new roll-outs over the past month. For those of you who weren’t around for the Myspace hype the first time, they were basically running the show for social media, period, for quite some time until Facebook came along …

The end of the world never came, so here we are back to the grind at the start of what we’d like to hope will be another great year. One of the biggest issues with the new year is getting back into work mode. Everybody suffers from this (you’re lying if you deny it) including …

So you want some fancy edgy creative, eh?! Well, it’s a good thing you found us…or is it? Does your branding suck? Marketing not looking so hot? Business fighting for establishment? Sounds to me like you need some up-to-snuff branding and marketing strategies to get you back on the field…but can you handle the heat? …

BEST IN SHOW – YOU CAN CALL US TOP DOG Thank you for being our friends. And Colleagues. And forever, always… our Guinea Pigs. But more importantly thanks for voting. If there’s anything we can learn from our neighbours down South (hint: it’s not how to spell neighbour) it’s how important voting is. Nothing could …

Facebook used to be exemplary of a potentially Utopian universe; endless possibilities and exchanges of information to be had, while blurring the lines of global connectivity. Though the platform isn’t entirely Utopian based on the idea that you have to work within the confined site, the social implications thereof indicate a leniency towards unity. Now, we must …